I'm an academic working in Design Research in Brisbane, Australia. I investigate how people use products and systems and tools in their lives.
Have you seen this wireless network? […] Turns out it’s not a virus (at least not in the usual sense) but rather an interesting fuckup on Microsoft’s part, with viral consequences.
Thanks, Microsoft! (I also see
hpsetupeverywhere, which is apparently from the same problem.)
Yep. hpsetup on the train, at the station, walking through town…
shakes fist at Microsoft
nnkh:
<emotion>
<category set="basicEmotions" name="Disgust"/>
<intensity value="0.82"/>
</emotion>An XML scheme for marking up emotions? Seriously?
Until recently I would have had the same reaction.
Then I installed this software in our research lab at work. The system
canattemtps to classify people’s faces, cross-culturally, on the seven basic emotions (pdf) described by Prof. Paul Ekman, formerly of UCSF.
John Farnham - Help! (via drums4hire)
Fact: John Farnham’s cover of The Beatles Help! is the best Beatles cover ever. Taking a jaunty pop number and re-making it into a vastly superior power ballad is nigh genius (skip to 2.22 for the singing).
Yes, Farnsey is pretty daggy, especially these days, (Ok, he was even daggy in the 80s when he had his career resurgence) but the man can seriously sing. And not just a little bit.
In this clip he’s about 53. Compare this version with one of the first times he performed the song from 1980 when he would have been in his mid-20s. Aside from the amazing yelp at about 3.50 from young Johnny, 53-year-old Farnsey gives his 20-something self, if not a whipping, then a damn good scare.
Then compare both versions with The Beatles bubble-gum original. Of course, it’s The freakin’ Beatles so they’re just about as tight as you could ask for, but it’s fairly forgettable. I guarantee you won’t forget the opening lines of Farnsey’s version.
